Information aggregation in debate: who should speak first?
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Information aggregation in debate : q who should speak first ?
Privately informed individuals speak openly in front of other members of a committee about the desirability of a public decision. Each individual wishes to appear well informed. For any given order of speech, committee members may herd by suppressing their true information. With individuals of heterogeneous expertise, optimizing over the order of speech can improve the extraction of information...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Economics
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0047-2727
DOI: 10.1016/s0047-2727(00)00119-5